It’s easy to get all kinds of information about a post on a Discourse instance using the Discourse API. We can even get the entire text of a post as HTML in it’s “cooked” form. Is it possible, though, to get the original Markdown that was typed in to generate the post via the API?

[image] Mark McClure: As far as I can tell from the discussion so far, the answer is No, we cannot get the text of a post in Markdown form via the Discourse API. I think you are talking about the topic/SLUG/id.json endpoint? If so, then by adding ?include_raw=true to the endpoint the JSON f…

This Theme component will add a raw button [image] Raw Post Button Theme component discourse2 Summary Raw Post Button will add a button to the post menu. When you click the button, you’ll get a modal / popover with the raw (markdown) version of the post. e…

[image] Dan DeMontmorency: This theme-component will add a raw button Thanks for the response. My question, though, is can I access the original Markdown via the Discourse API?

I am not sure with the API but this is another method of getting raw post. [image] Using AI to create Hide content bbcode wrapper dev That’s very cool! The caveat, which you likely know, is that the text is available several ways since it’s just hidden with css. One is t…

[image] Sam Saffron: adding ?include_raw=true to the endpoint Yes, that does it exactly - thanks Sam!!

Getting Markdown for a post using API

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) September 3, 2024, 4:18pm 2

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